Building structure



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Patented Jan. 7, 1930 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FREDERICK M. VENZIE,OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING STRUCTURE Application filedFebruary 18, 1929. Serial No. 340,862.

- ciency enhanced.

A further object is to provide a wall or partition construction whichmay be erected y unskilled labor in quicker time, at less expense andmore efliciently than skilled me- 5 chanics now erect commercial wallboard.

Other and further objects of the present invention reside in theprovision of general details of construction and arrangement of partsfor attaining the results sought by the foregoing objects.

, The invention consists of the novel construction hereinafter describedand finally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features and scope of the invention will bemore fully understood from the following description taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, and in which:

Fig. 1, is a fragmentary View in elevation of a wall or partitionstructure embodying the invention.

Fig. 2, is a view in elevation showing a detail of construction.

Fig. 3, is a similar view illustrating a de tail of construction.

Fig. 4;, is a view in section taken upon the line 4-4: of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5, is a View in section taken upon the line 5.5 of Fig. 2; and vFig. 6, ,isIa view in perspective illustrating one of the clips shown inthe foregoing figures.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention I have shown in theaccompanying drawings one form thereof which is at present preferred byme, since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory andreliable results, although it is to be understood that the variousinstrumentalities of 50 which my invention consists can be variouslyarranged and organized and that-my invention-is not limited to theprecise arrangement and organization of the instrumentalities as hereinshown and described.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the referencenumeral 10 designatessections of plaster board as Rockwall or any of the other well knowncommercial makers. These sections or slabs of plaster board 10 areerected upon studding 11 and nailed thereto. However, practice dictatesthat stability of the slabs may be materially increased by theemployment of the attachments of the present invention, a description ofwhich follows:

As the slabs 10 are nailed to the studding 11 many of the slabs havetheir ends unsupported. This makes for a .veryinefiicient structure tosupport the plaster thereafter to v 'be applied. Therefore, I propose toleave be tween adjacent wall slabs spacessuflicient to accept thedevices forming part of the invention. 1

First I use a U-shaped, staple-like member, best seen in Fig. 4 andwhich is designated 12. This member 12 I drive into a pair 5 of adjacentslabs 10 which may be readily done because the slabs are of relativelysoft material. The member 12 is provided with a depressed portion 13 toaccept a clip 14 about to be described. This clip 14 may be best seen inFig. 6 and like the member 12 is made of wire. The member 14 is bent toprovide a cross piece 15 extended from which at right angles thereto isa short section 16, extended from. which at an inclination thereto is anarm 17 terminating in a finger 18. In practice the cross piece 15 isintroduced to a slot 19 between adjacent slabs 10, as shown in dottedlines in Fig. 2.

The cross piece is then shifted so that the &

cross piece 15 extends across the lot 19 instead of in parallelismtherewith and the arm 17 is forced down over the member 12 so that thepart 16 abuts against the member 12 and clamps the parts securelytogether with the arm 17 paralleling the slot 19. This arrangement ofparts is very clearly seen in Fig. 5. It is apparent that with aplurality of these members 12 and clamps 14 used between adj acentslabs, as is best seen in Fig. 1, stability 1 of the slabs is secured.It is also apparent that these devices are so simple and so easilyapplied that unskilled labor may readily po-'- sition them. It will beunderstood, of course, that with the slabs 10 in positionand the variousclips in position the usual plaster is placed over the wall orpartition, although the plaster is not shown in the drawing. Between theparts 16 and 17 of the clamp there is provided a curved portion 20 whichfits over the depression 13 of member 12 and adds to the efficiency inthe interlocking of parts. I

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A building-structure comprising a plurality of wall slabs suitablysupported, adjacent slabs having free spaces therebetween, staple-likemembers driven into a pair of slabs and arranged across said freespaces, clamping clips having cross members arranged across said freespaces upon the faces of the slabs opposite said staple-like members,and arms extended from said cross members and clamped over saidstaple-like members, said .arms' being arranged within said free spacesand in parallelism there with. a 2. A structure as described in claim 1characterized by said staple-like member being formed of wire and havinga central de pressed portion to be engaged by the arm of the clampingmember. a

3. A structure as described in claim 1, characterized b the clampingclip being formed of wire 1n one piece bent to form the cross-piecewhich has extended at right angles thereto a short section whichterminates in an arm disposed in the-same plane with said short sectionand having a curved part between said short section and arm for engagingover the staple-like member.

FREDERICK M. VENZIE.

